Re: [TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-14 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > And there is a major difference. The Australian broadcasters, with the > support of the perhaps-misnamed Liberal party (that we would think acts > more like conservatives) that controls Parliament with a coalition of two > other parties...

Re: [TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
And there is a major difference. The Australian broadcasters, with the support of the perhaps-misnamed Liberal party (that we would think acts more like conservatives) that controls Parliament with a coalition of two other parties, are trying to get passed some "reform" measures that would basical

Re: [TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-14 Thread Brad Beam
Try Hulu. I've already finished off binges of "McLeod's Daughters" (Nine), "Packed to the Rafters" and "All Saints" (both Seven), and I'm almost caught up on "Offspring" (Ten; its 6th season just aired in Oz). I'm still waiting for that direct-feed CBC America channel Sent from my iPhone

Re: [TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-14 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:49 AM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > And let it be noted that Australia has never really taken to cable or > satellite--but has taken to streamers (9 million Netflix subscribers, 2.4 > million subscribers to the Fox-owned cable/satellite service Foxtel, which > enjoys a near-

Re: [TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-14 Thread Kevin M.
I am largely unfamiliar with the Aussie TV scene. I watched the final two series of their version of Top Gear (once they got the right hosts with the right chemistry), and I recall PBS aired a drama series about an Australian Navy ship a few years ago, the name of which eludes me. If they are tryi

[TV orNotTV] Aussie Net One Step From Bankruptcy--Could It Happen Here?

2017-06-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Among Australia's commercial TV networks, Network Ten has long been the scrappy underdog going against its longer-established, higher-rated and (for the most part) richer competitors the Seven Network and the Nine Network (yes, they're all named after the channel numbers they're on in the big c